Yakub Memon to be buried in Nagpur jail: Sources

Nagpur: Yakub Memon, the March 1993 Mumbai blasts convict, who was executed here early today, will be buried inside the Nagpur Central Jail complex in Maharashtra, official sources said here.

The jail authorities declined a demand to hand over the body to Memon’s family and will go ahead with the burial at an isolated area inside the sprawling jail premises after the autopsy report is received.

Memon was hanged at 6.35 a.m. after the Supreme Court rejected the last of his appeals in a special hearing which concluded around 5 a.m. in New Delhi.